Each state has its own copyright laws?

Copyright Law is a FEDERAL law Complete title of the law: The Copyright Law of the United States

As long as you dont make money off a web site, you can copy songs, images, and other thing about the artist on your site.

THE COPYRIGHT LAW ALLOWS AUTHORS, MUSICIANS, ARTISTS, ETC. TO MAKE MONEY OFF THEIR LABOR. IT PREVENTS OTHERS FROM TAKING WORK FOR FREE AND ALTERING THE WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION.

Fair Use laws allow for copying of someone else's work without their permission.

What is Fair Use?

Fair use allows for the use of material for criticism,

comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. One can use excerpts from someone's work, but may not reproduce it in its entirety.

For you to copyright your work you must send a form off to the copyright office in Washington D.C.

Alternatives to Copyright
Licenses User of material can retain copyright by

allow people to use the content of their work under certain terms.

Example: The copyright can give schools permission to use content for free.

Open License Others can use but must credit

original source.

Example: Citing a source in a research paper

A creation of art, song, or writing is copy protected for an artists life time only.

How long is copyright?

Copyright last for life plus 70 years for individuals for

anything on or after 1978. Works published before 1978 and after 1923 are protected for 95 years.

You just saw a cool video on the web so you download the file and use it in your personal video- this is illegal.

MOTION PICTURE AND AV (AUDIO VIDEO) ARE PROTECTED BY THE COPYRIGHT LAW

You just wrote a poem, once it is written it is copy protected.

Copyright Law prevents others from taking work for

free and altering the work without permission.

It is okay to copy a friends CD he just paid for so you can listen to the songs also.

The main motive for artists, authors, musicians, etc. is

to make money. If artists, authors, musicians, etc. do not make money then they will not create their work anymore.

You can copy a Shakespeare play since he has been dead for well past the limit of the copyright law.

Shakespeares work is in the public domain because it

was published before 1923. Anything in the public domain is useable by anyone in any way that they want. NO ONE OWNS IT!

You paint a picture for the school on the wall of the library. You no longer own the copyright.

You can remain anonymous when you download songs off the Internet.

Because the Internet is so new, copyright laws are not applied.

All Copyright Laws apply to Internet use.

Some abuses of copyright are criminal and therefore punishable with jail time.

Different levels of Copyright Law abuse is punished in

different manners based on the degree of severity.

If you rightly purchased a painting you now own the copyright to it.

Copyright Law protects artists work of art.

For Educational purposes you can use a portion of others copyrighted work without their permission.

Use of material for criticism, comments, news

reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Limitations apply.

Copyright laws are intended to protect the authors or creators rights.

A work must have a copyright symbol () to be copy protected.

If a work finds its way in an email or a public area on the web then it is automatically in public domain and therefore is not copy protected.

If a work is substantially similar, then a court can find that you violated the law.

Reproducing fake items is illegal.

Example: Purses

What is plagiarism?

What are some rights that copyright laws provides a person?

Besides the artist what other people are affected by the illegal sharing of music files?

What three things can someone can steal from you?

What do you really own that is yours when you buy music?

So would I want others to copy my ideas and creativity that took my time and ingenuity to create and make copies to give to others without payment or permission?